AAPF Social Justice Writers Retreat

Negril, Jamaica

Since 2006, AAPF has hosted leading writers, academics and social justice advocates in Negril, Jamaica for a Social Justice Writers Retreat The retreat provides writers interested in racial justice concerns a setting within which to share and constructively critique works in progress.

Last year, during the retreat's 10th anniversary year, co-founders Kimberle Crenshaw and Luke Harris, AAPF staff, and workshop participants conceived of the idea for The Charleston Imperative -- a statement ultimately signed by over 3,000 concerned individuals in the wake of the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Signees included writers, social justice advocates and others drawn from feminist and antiracist mobilizations such as Alice Walker, Eve Ensler, Kiese Laymon, Gloria Steinem, Darnell Moore, Brittney Cooper, Marlon Peterson and Jane Fonda. See, "The Charleston Imperative,” Ms. Magazine Blog; and "The Charleston Imperative," The Huffington Post.